The recovery of gold and other noble metals from electronic waste,in specific discarded mobile phones, has enormous potential, and but is still underdeveloped. British and American scientists occupy now identified a simple and nontoxic compound that is able to extract gold selectively from a mixture of metals that are usually present in such electronic waste. How this selective binding could be used in a convenient protocol for efficient gold recovery is described in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
Source: phys.org